All audience reviews of De Dana Dan

It takes guts for a filmmaker to make Paresh Rawal the protagonist in a movie that has Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty. This one is a trademark masala Priyadarshan outing that you will enjoy while watching but won’t take anything along. less

*Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif,Suneil Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Archana Puran Singh, Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia, Chunky Pandey, Aditi Govratikar,Tinnu Anand, Asrani, Rajpal Yadav, Sharat Saxena & Shakti Kapoor. Directed by Priyadarshan & Produced by Ganesh & Ratan Jain (Venus Records & Cassettes along with Eros International)

Rating: ***

While Akshay Kumar & Suneil Shetty have always been hot favorites for Priyadarshan back since the days of Hera Pheri on the other hand Priyadarshan like Ramgopal Verma has become a sort of film factory churning out films at regular intervals with his assembled cast the only changes one sees is in the female lead changing while everything else remains more or less the same. This has been happening too frequently to be a sheer coincidence.

So if it was Tabu in Hera Pheri then it is Mahima Choudhary in Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar, while it is Rimi Sen in Malamaal Express or Genelia D'souza in Mere Baap Pehle Aap.

After the super-duper success of Welcome and Singh Is King has brought out the perfect sense of comic timing in Katrina Kaif and has also emerged as a kinda lucky mascot along with Akshay Kumar. Any wonder then that she has been repeated again opposite Akki in De Dana Dan by Priyadarshan too who has incidentally signed Katrina for the first time and she is simply brilliant sandwitched between Akki, Suneil& Sameera Reddy.

Archana Puran Singh brings back fond memories of Shashikala during her golden days as she screams and rants screeching at full volume in a role you're bound to love. Her sense of comic timing is simply superb and she brings down the house everytime she screams at Akshay Kumar in Dolby surround sound.

Former Mrs World Aditi Govratikar is seen on the silver screen after a rather long time maybe because she has been too busy doing realities shows like Big Boss-3 and Fear Factor Season 1. Maybe she got noticed by Akshay Kumar in South Africa while partcipating in the Fear Factor show that was hosted by Akshay Kumar!!!

De Dana Dan like most Priyadarshan films has a wafer thin plot but the situational comedy makes it an absolute laugh riot right from the very word go. This time around you have Akshay Kumar playing Archana Puran Singh's man Friday desperately trying to repay the loan taken by his dead father. On the other hand Suniel Shetty is a struggling actor who came to Singapore to become an action hero like Jackie Chaan but ends up working in a courier company.

Then you have Paresh Rawal evading the cops having 9 arrest warrants in his name coz his checks bounce faster than he can issue them and so he is desperate to get his son married to a multi billionaire's only daughter to pay back his debts.Johnny Lever plays a hired killer while Asrani is a local don.Within these parameters the ground is set when all the characters land in Singapore in the same luxury hotel.

With Suniel Shetty & Akshay Kumar desperate to marry Sameera Reddy & Katrina Kaif before it's too late they hatch a plot to kidnap the rich heiress Archana's lapdog Moolchand to get a huge ransom but turn of events has the police believe that the servant has been kidnapped thus begins a wild goose chase.

Neha Dhupia is once again roped in by Priyadarshan as she is his hot favorite but her role is fleeting maybe because she had to take off for America after she made it big in Hollywood like Mallika Sherawat and this was an old commitment she had to honor.

All said and done De Dana Dan is an absolute time pass laugh riot like most of Priyadarshan films. Nothing more and certainly nothing less!!

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The return of the trio Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Priyadarshan, not trio but quartet, Paresh Rawal. After giving out the best comedy movies of the time, Hera Pheri and Phir hera pheri, this is a disaster. Priyadarshan should now think less than making a confusion mess he keeps creating in his films starting from HulChul.

Nitin (Akshay) and Ram (suniel) are paupers, but lucky in love with Anjali (Katrina) and Manpreet (Sameera Reddy) respectively. Ram works in courier service in Singapore. Harbans Chaddha (Paresh Rawal) is in huge debts, needs money, and pretends to be rich businessman. His son, Nonney Chaddha (Chunky) is even more useless. Harbans meets Kakkad (Tinu Anand) and signs a deal to get married their son and daughter(Katrina) respectively. ANjali disguises nonney that I am pregnant, but the useless chap still agrees to marry.

Meanwhile harbans meets Mr, Oberoi (Manoj Joshi), he realises that the guy is rich and asks him to get his son married to her daughter Manpreet.
Now both the girls go back to their respective partners to get money, and Akshay tries to commit suicide saying paisa paisa. Then they plan to kidnap Moolchand the dog. What follows is the confusion, tumults, chaos, till the point you run from the cinema hall or stop your DVD when you no more stand to wait for the outcome.

No story, no sane comedy, no good punching dialogues required for a comic timing come out. Priyadarshan should come out of the shelve and try somethng different rather than making a chaotic climax out of a story, where the audience gasp to decide who is looking for what and what actually the audience are looking for.

Akshay should learn to do somehting different rather than attempting the same thing again and again, moreover Priyadarshan hasn't given him much screen space. Actually so many artists have been added in the film cast that giving everyone some time still makes 3 hr. not enough time, althought the 3hrs. are too long for audience to sit down and watch this for. less

De Dana Dan is an entertaining comedy and audience from different strata of society can see this fun movie and have some good laughs. less